Hi Andrew,
Those 415's & 420's were 450g not so long ago. instead of putting the
price up they dumb down the product, either in quality or quantity...
Remember Kr@ft Braised Steak & Onions? when I was a kid, the gravy used
to just about ooze out of the 1lb can when you cracked it, in between
the chunks of meat thet used to just about melt in your mouth &
tantalise your tongue with the spices.
Now there's space in the 410g can on top of the Braised Minced Gristle,
Lips, Unmentionables & Unidentifiable Vegetable Matter in Tasteless
Gelatinous Muck...
davidt (who, at 40, seems to not really enjoy his food anymore unless
it's swamped in chilli!)
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:18:51PM +1000, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> Damn it I was guessing OK - what the hell is a pound anywho - one
> over four point two equals something or other. And nameless herbal
> friends of mine claim that you can cut an easy twenty-five grams out
> of an ounce.
> Went and checked the pantry and while there are some 350's and 400's
> there are also 415's, 420's 530's and other peculiar numbers. And ALL
> timber lengths here are 1.8 (not 1803 OK), 2.1, 2.4 usw. Definitely
> an imperial hangover.
> AndrewF
> (there goes another pet theory, victim of mathematical pedantry,
> bugger it).
>
> On 07/09/2005, at 6:37 PM, Piers Hemy wrote:
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> >
> > 418g = 1 pound? Remind me not to buy anything from you by weight :-)
> >
> > --
> > Piers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf
> > Of Andrew Fildes
> > Sent: 07 September 2005 09:24
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [OM] Re: Some guys never learn
> >
> >
> > That's amusing because, although we've been metric in Oz for many
> > years, a
> > lot of 'stuff'' is in measurements clearly converted. Thus, a lot of
> > packaged foods seem to be something like 418g instead of 500g
> > (obviously a
> > pound)
> >
> > --snip
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